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Emerging Technologies in Manufacturing Education - I

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ben Zoghi, Texas A&M University; Ryan Beasley; Wei Zhan, Texas A&M University

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Manufacturing

AC 2007-971: A THOROUGH HANDS-ON PROCESS TO IMPLEMENT A RFIDSYSTEMBen Zoghi, Texas A&M University Dr. Ben Zoghi is currently a Professor and Director of RFID/Sensor Lab in the Engineering Technology and Industrial Distribution Department at Texas A&M University. He has served the department as Industrial Distribution Program Coordinator, Executive Director of Thomas and Joan Read Center and Associate Department Head for Research since he joined Texas A&M in 1987. His research activities include RFID/Sensors and engineering leadership development. Dr. Zoghi is a senior member fo IEEE, meber of ASEE, TAP, TBP. He has over 100 educational and research publications.Ryan Beasely, TAMU

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Multidisciplinary Engineering Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mani Mina, Iowa State University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

AC 2007-2913: MINOR IN ENGINEER STUDIES: A NEW PROGRAM FOR A NEWERAMani Mina, Iowa State University Page 12.1070.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 MINOR IN ENGINEER STUDIES: A NEW PROGRAM FOR A NEW ERAAbstractA new program has started in our school. This is a true multidisciplinary program that includesthe whole engineering college and all engineering fields. The major goal of the program is toprovide technological awareness and understanding of the technical issues to non-engineeringstudents. Since many managers, directors, and policymakers (all around the world) are makingdecisions on technological-based

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Unique Laboratory Experiments and Programs Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Philip Lunsford, East Carolina University; John Pickard, East Carolina University; Chip Popoviciu, Cisco Systems, Inc.

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

AC 2007-1962: TEACHING A LABORATORY-BASED IPV6 COURSE IN ADISTANCE EDUCATION ENVIRONMENTPhilip Lunsford, East Carolina University Phil Lunsford received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and a M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from North Carolina State University. He is a registered professional engineer and is currently an Assistant Professor at East Carolina University. His research interests include system simulation, telemedicine applications, and information assurance.John Pickard, East Carolina University John Pickard has more than 15 years in the Technical training profession and 9 years experience in the

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael Black, American University; Manoj Franklin, University of Maryland-College Park

AC 2007-2027: A PROCESSOR DESIGN PROJECT FOR A FIRST COURSE INCOMPUTER ORGANIZATIONMichael Black, American UniversityManoj Franklin, University of Maryland-College Park Page 12.97.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 A Processor Design Project for a First Course in Computer OrganizationAbstractAlthough computers are part of our daily lives, students taking their first class in computerorganization paradoxically often find computer design abstract and difficult to visualize. Tomake the material more tangible, we have developed a novel three part term project that requiresstudents to develop and simulate their own

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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Meader Woo; John M. Watkins

A Graphical User Interface for a Dynamic Signal Analyzer Using Simulink Meader Woo, John M. Watkins Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Wichita State University 1845 Fairmount Wichita, KS 67260-0044 J.Watkins@IEEE.orgIntroductionThe ability to understand and utilize the frequency response of a linear system is a criticalbuilding block in many undergraduate engineering disciplines. For example, undergraduatestudents in electrical engineering will often see the frequency response in courses on circuits

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New Tools in Teaching and Learning Biomedical Engineering Concepts

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Vikki Hazelwood, Stevens Institute of Technology; Arthur Ritter, Stevens Institute of Technology

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Biomedical

: jmajdans@.edu Or Professor Hazelwood Page 12.7.12APPENDIX B: INFO SESSIONRe: Sports Medicine Research Launch!Hey Gang,Welcome back to Stevens! We hope you had a great holiday break and that you are ready for avery exciting and rewarding semester.Thanks for volunteering to be a subject in the "Biomed Shred" fitness project. Your participationputs you into the elite class of charter membership on the Sports Medicine Research Team. Moreimportantly, your help in this project should enable us to develop some very importantinformation that could potentially improve the health and welfare of hundreds of thousands ofpeople in the future. We sincerely

Conference Session

Mathematics in Transition

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sandra Linder, Math Out of the Box; Donna Gunderson, Math Out of the Box/Clemson University

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Mathematics

push the the next have thirty pattern you blue. This equals number by tiles. You have on Students is called button three looking at the and your your help each the core. more times, pattern of the partner are magnetic other to One of what will numbers. going to board. make sure these your answer Don’t add in make a Look and they are colors is be? Make a your head; use pattern. 2.3 see which measuring the prediction. the other B one of the their element

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Undergraduate Aerospace Design – General Topics

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Charles Eastlake, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; Magdy Attia, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

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Aerospace

withsufficient aerodynamic and mechanical robustness to manage the possible configurations. For Page 12.599.8example, if a higher mass flow upgrade is planned; the mechanical evaluation of the CM airfoils (a) (b)Figure 4. GE CF6-6 high-bypass Turbofan: (a) HPC top-half casing, (b) engine with HPC casing removed showing 12 of 16 HPC rotor blades.must be conducted at the higher mass flow to ensure sufficient stress margin. If a differentmechanical speed (rpm) is planned, then the core is evaluated aerodynamically at both speeds(original and

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Bell, University of Illinois-Chicago; Thomas Moher, University of Illinois-Chicago

-School benchmarks, E for Elementary School, M for MiddleSchool, and H for High School ) • ( 3 A E ) – “Technology enables scientists and others to observe things that are too small or too far away to be seen without them and to study the motion of objects that are moving very rapidly or are hardly moving at all.” • ( 4 D E ) – “With magnifiers, students should inspect substances composed of large collections of particles, . . ., to discover the unexpected details at smaller scales.” • ( 8 B H ) – “Increased knowledge of the molecular structure of materials helps in the design and synthesis of new materials for special purposes.” • ( 8 E H ) – “Miniaturization of information-processing hardware can increase

Conference Session

Faculty Reward System Reform

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Donald Keating, University of South Carolina; Thomas Stanford, University of South Carolina; John Bardo, Western Carolina University; Duane Dunlap, Western Carolina University; Gary Bertoline, Purdue University; Dennis Depew, Purdue University; Mark Schuver, Purdue University; Eugene DeLoatch, Morgan State University; Stephen Tricamo, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Timothy Lindquist, Arizona State University; Albert McHenry, Arizona State University; Harvey Palmer, Rochester Institute of; David Quick, Rolls-Royce Corporation; Mohammad Noori, California State Polytechnic University; Joseph Tidwell, Boeing Co.; Roger Olson, Rolls-Royce Corporation; Samuel Truesdale, Rolls-Royce Corporation

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Graduate Studies

even hard to get recognition for a sabbatical in industry … Please understand that I am not criticizing the current faculty. I am one of them, and I respect my colleagues greatly. Rather, I am criticizing a system that prevents us from enriching faculty with a complementary set of experiences and talents.”B) Responsive Universities ─Relevancy to the Creative Professions in the 21st CenturyThe National Collaborative agrees with president Wulf’s point of view of the need for watershed reformin the U.S. system of engineering education and suggests as the Kellogg Commission has pointed out ─in order to remain relevant to their constituencies, and to be more effective ─ universities must change.2Whereas universities have traditionally

Conference Session

Software Engineering Topics

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sheryl Duggins, Southern Polytechnic State University

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee

andobjectives of the program and institution. The professional component must include: (a) oneyear of a combination of college level mathematics and basic sciences (some with experimentalexperience) appropriate to the discipline and (b) one and one-half years of engineeringtopics…”30 This appears to be clear enough, with the most important part being “appropriate tothe discipline” which, since the SEEK specifies what that knowledge is and SE2004 specifiescurricula “to help accreditation agencies… make decisions about various institutions’ programs”,the two agencies should be working together, with ABET deferring to SE2004 for what specificsubjects are appropriate to the discipline. But that doesn’t seem to be happening.Of the 13 ABET accredited

Conference Session

Outreach Projects and General Energy Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Valentina Cecchi, Drexel University; Michael Kleinberg, Drexel University; Milo Tong, Drexel University; Bridget Kleinberg, Drexel University; Karen Miu, Drexel University

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

Page 12.454.2undergraduate and graduate power engineering students were re-designed and adapted foroutreach education. An iterative design procedure was employed with the active involvement ofand feedback from a non-engineer and a high school student. The design process yielded notabledifferences from the original experiments designed for power engineers. Specifically, thefollowing new educational tasks were accomplished: 1. development of additional safety hardware, 2. re-definition of educational objectives, 3. iterative experiment design process, including: a. design of assessment surveys, b. design of new pedagogical material, i.e. laboratory manuals, c. development of new laboratory activities to be

Conference Session

Teaching Methods for the 21st Century: Part 1

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Richard Savage, California Polytechnic State University; Linda Vanasupa, California Polytechnic State University; Jonathan Stolk, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering

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Materials

Foundation (Grant#EEC- Page 12.367.140530760). The views expressed within this paper are solely those of the authors and do notnecessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. Valuable contributions weremade to some of the project-based learning activities by Katherine Chen, Blair London, TrevorHarding and William Hughes.References1. Brito, C., and C. Tenente, “Working with Projects in Engineering Education,” Proceedings ofthe 1999 ASEE Annual Conference: Engineering Education to Serve the World, June 20-23,1999, pp. 5765-5773.2. London, B., Chen, K.C. and Vanasupa, L., "Materials Selection for the Life Cycle - A NewCourse

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Introducing Active and Inductive Learning and Improving the Learning Curve in ME

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Veronica Addison, University of South Carolina; Christian Hipp, University of South Carolina; Jed Lyons, University of South Carolina

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Mechanical Engineering

? 3.5 3 2.5 2 AP A B+ B C+ C D ? GPA Calculus I GradeFigure 1. The distribution of grade point average (GPA) and grade in Calculus I for the two sections of EMCH 201 were similar.Both sections were taught by the same professor and evaluated with the same methods. For mostof the semester, both sections were taught at the same time in a sixty-person classroom.However, the two sections received differentiated instruction at four times during the semester.During each

Conference Session

EMD Program Design

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ertunga Ozelkan, University of North Carolina-Charlotte; S. Gary Teng, University of North Carolina-Charlotte; Thomas Johnson, Besam Entrance Solutions; Tom Benson, Pass and Seymour-Legrand; Dean Nestvogel, Pass and Seymour-Legrand

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Engineering Management

hi s- at ct S uc na A B du l

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Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alexis Powe, Mississippi State University

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International

majoring in management; two majoring in Englisheducation; two majoring in biotechnology; one majoring in chemistry; one majoring in appliedchemistry (leaning toward a career in nutrition); one majoring in Chinese language and literature;one majoring in French language and literature; one majoring in political science; and onemajoring in economics.Based on the students’ diverse majors, some course assignments were altered to accommodatestudents with non-technical backgrounds. Appendix B contains a table describing each majorassignment in its original version (closely based on that used in GE 3513) and its revised versionfor Practical English. Discussion of the assignments and modifications made is provided in theremainder of this section.The first

Conference Session

Innovation in Construction Engineering Education II

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gunnar Lucko, Catholic University of America; Panagiotis Tsopelas, Catholic University of America; Timothy Garland, Catholic University of America; Rodrigo Gonzalez, Catholic University of America; Thomas Lee, Catholic University of America; Justin Molineaux, Catholic University of America

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Construction

designing and executing their projects. The research and education projectthat is presented in this paper has been designed to cover such educational outcomes as havebeen defined by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (12, p. 2), including: (b) an ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as to analyze and interpret data (c) an ability to design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs within realistic constraints such as economic, environmental, social, political, ethical, health and safety, manufacturability, and sustainability (d) an ability to function on multi-disciplinary teams (…) (g) an ability to communicate effectively (h) the broad education

Conference Session

The Impact of Curriculum on the Retention of Women Students

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Patricia Backer, San Jose State University

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Women in Engineering

article. As you read this article, you should review it with respect to the above student learning objective. Here are some questions about the reading that might help you with this article. a. What is the historical and social impact of Martha Stewart and how does it interact with the dimensions of race, class and gender? b. The author discusses the roles of work and family to be competing areas for women. How does the history of paid work versus unpaid work (housework) compare for women of different ethnic, cultural and class groups? c. The author compares the career of Martha Stewart and the career of Oprah Winfrey and

Conference Session

FPD12 -- Novel Approaches to First Year Programs

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Janet Meyer, Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis; Nancy Lamm, Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis; Joshua Smith, Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis

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First-Year Programs

: building community benefits faculty and other university professionals and serves students well. Paper presented at the Ninth International Conference on the First Year Experience. St. Andrews, Scotland.11. Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis. (2003). A template for first-year seminars at IUPUI. (2nd Ed.). Indianapolis, IN.12. Landis, R. B. (2000). Studying Engineering: A Roadmap to a Rewarding Career, Second Edition. Los Angeles: Discovery Press.13. Donalson, K. (1999). The Engineering Student Survival Guide. Boston: McGraw-Hill.14. Holtzapple, M. T. & Reece, W. D. (2005). Concepts in Engineering. Boston: McGraw-Hill.15. Oakes, W. C., Leone, L. L. & Gunn, C. J. (2003

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Curriculum Development and Delivery Modes in Nuclear Engineering

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sheldon Landsberger, University of Texas-Austin; Janet Ellzey, University of Texas-Austin; Brad Hull, University of Texas-Austin; Jessica Rosinski, University of Texas-Austin; James Wright, University of Texas-Permian Basin

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Nuclear and Radiological

standards and realistic constraints that include most of the following considerations: economic; environmental; sustainability; manufacturability; ethical; health and safety; social; and political. The professional component must include (a) one year of a combination of college level mathematics and basic sciences (some with experimental experience) appropriate to the discipline (b) one and one-half years of engineering topics, to include engineering sciences and engineering design appropriate to the student’s field of study (c) a general education component that complements the technical content of the curriculum and is consistent with the program and institution objectives

Conference Session

Cognitive and Motivational Issues in Student Performance II

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gretchen Molina, University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez; Asmaa Idrisu, George Mason University; Alexandra Medina-Borja, University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez; Amelia Marian, West University of Timisoara

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Educational Research and Methods

Page 12.252.161 Richmond B., System Dynamics/Systems Thinking: Let's Just Get On With It. Delivered at the 1994International Systems Dynamics Conference in Sterling, Scotland2 Richmond B., System Dynamics/Systems Thinking: Let's Just Get On With It. Delivered at the 1994International Systems Dynamics Conference in Sterling, Scotland3 Sweeney, L.B, and Sterman, J.D. “Bathtub dynamics: initial results of a systems thinking inventory”,System Dynamics Review, Winter 16, No 4., 2000, pp. 249-286.17 Pala, Ö. and . Vennix, J. A. M. “Effect of system dynamics education on systems thinking inventory taskperformance”, System Dynamics Review, Volume 21, Issue 2, 2005. Pages 147-1724 Forrester, Jay W., 1961. Industrial dynamics, Waltham, MA: Pegasus

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EMD Curriculum Design

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rashmi Jain, Stevens Institute of Technology; Ozgur Erol, Stevens Institute of Technology; Anithashree Chandrasekaran, Stevens Institute of Technology

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Engineering Management

12.468.13world and still not find it overwhelming within the requirements of their course work. As alwaysit remains a challenge to define a perfect scope of a new course.AcknowledgementThe authors acknowledge the help and support of Dr. John Farr, Head of the Department ofSystems Engineering and Engineering Management, Stevens Institute of Technology, in thedevelopment of the course on Business Process Reengineering and including it as part of theEngineering Management curriculum of the Institute.References 1. Rigby, D.; Bilodeau, B. (2005). The Bain 2005 Management Tool Survey; Strategy & Leadership; 2005; Vol. 33, Number 4; pg. 4. 2. Farr, J.; Sauser,B.J.; Jain, R.; Verma, D. (2005). Engineering Management Education - Technology

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Student Teams And Project Based Learning / The Critical First Year in Engineering Education / Student Teams and Project-Based Learning

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tamara Moore, University Of Minnesota; Heidi Diefes-Dux, Purdue University; P.K. Imbrie, Purdue University

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Educational Research and Methods

willSimilarly, Peterson Tires has received complaints hopefully be able to fix it before any more accidents occur. Individual QuestionsRead the Memo on the previous page individually. Answer the following questions individually.a. Why is reliability important? Besides recalls, what kinds of consequences could a company withreliability problems experience?b. Give two specific examples of products, other than those mentioned, where reliability is important.c. A "reliability curve" shows the total number of products that have failed versus time. Describe what thiscurve might look for a product such as tires. Problem

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Trends in Construction Engineering II

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Cottrell, University of North Carolina-Charlotte

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Construction

todetermine a productive statistic regarding the historical unit cost which is then used toforecast future performance on a proposed project. Procedures employ the followingequation in order to develop a “weighted” unit cost: Where A = minimum unit cost of previous projects B = average unit cost of previous projects C = maximum unit cost of previous projectsThis Unit Cost in $ per unit can be summarily used as a factor for estimating the cost of anew facility of known size. As a practical demonstration, the students were providedhistorical data for a number of previously completed projects which provided them themeans for completing a cost analysis and enabled them to

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2007 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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Amir G. Rezaei; Kyu-Jung Kim; Jawaharlal Mariappan; Angela C. Shih

projection plan which contained: a) course goals, a broad statements indicating what the students will learn from the course. b) course objectives, descriptions of measurable outcomes that students should be able to demonstrate upon completion of the course c) course rationale, brief justification of why the students need to learn this course material. and d) module outline, description of how the course content will be grouped.LEARNING UNIT PLANLearning unit plan is a component of the Learning Module Plan which consist of: a) module name, module under which the learning unit is grouped, if applicable. b) learning unit name/topic, broad statements indicating what the students will learn from the learning unit. c

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Frances Stewart; Malgorzata Zywno, Ryerson University

technology-focused andhumanities programs), instructional strategies, and learning outcomes (i.e. academic success,their sense of personal fulfillment in the program and their perceptions of instructional methods),b) analyze correlations between the model variables and outcomes, and c) formulate somerecommendations to improve the learning outcomes. Individual differences that will beconsidered are students’ learning styles, emotional competency as they progress through theirfour-year programs, and their response to instructional delivery methods. The project will alsoinclude development and testing of some assessment tools. The study will follow a cohort ofstudents through their undergraduate education at the authors’ home university from their

Conference Session

New Models for Teaching and Learning

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Malgorzata Zywno, Ryerson University; Mary Frances Stewart

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Educational Research and Methods

room and b) that while interactive multimedia helpedstudents with all modalities improve their scores, Active, Sensing and Global learners benefitedthe most. Other studies reached similar conclusions. For example, a study at the University ofTexas, where interactive online tutorials were used to support Mechanical Engineering labs, alsofound larger improvements among the sections with access to the tutorials8, as compared with thesections that did not use the tutorials. The study also found that Active and Sensing learnersbenefited more from the virtual labs than Visual learners did. These observations supportFelder’s assertion that Active, Sensing and Global learners are the main beneficiaries of ateaching style that includes a mix of

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Industrial Technology

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ranjeet Agarwala, East Carolina University; Tarek Abdel-Salam; Mohammed Faruqi, Texas A&M University-Kingsville

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Engineering Technology

Unsteady State Heat Transfer Figure1: Students engaged in constructing and executing the experimentStudents are required to calculate the heat transfer rate, overall heat transfer coefficient,plot the temperature against position for different thermocouple, discuss all possiblesources of error and discuss results. The specimen cross sectional area is 0.00049 m2,conductivity of brass heated and cooled sections are 121 W/mk and the conductivity ofstainless steel intermediate section is 25 W/mk. Page 12.981.6 (a) (b) (c) (d

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Josephine Lamela; James Finne; Karen Ford; Deborah Iacontino

did mailings to their network ofhigh school teachers and guidance counselors. The center took advantage of listserves andgovernment agencies with web links to advertise TechXploration. Information aboutTechXploration was available at the summer camp open house held at Middlesex CountyCollege.Because the program is designed to engage students with a wide variety of backgrounds andabilities it was critical to reach out to student with a range of grade point averages. It was spelledout in the literature, web site and brochures that a grade point of A, B or high C was appropriate.Programs like this will tend to attract only the highest achieving students, so it was made clearthat the program was open to an academically diverse population.The

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Lingard, California State University-Northridge

into one of seven program areas, and each area has a coordinator.) Current coordinators may be re-elected, and there are no term limits. This set of program area coordinators constitutes the Assessment Committee for the year.2. During the first month of the spring semester the Assessment Committee identifies the program outcomes to be formally assessed during the current calendar year and presents this list for department approval no later that the first department meeting in March. Outcomes are selected using the following criteria: a. The primary outcomes selected for assessment are those identified as most in need of formal assessment based on informal assessments from the previous year. b. Any outcome not